Yall! I don’t even know where to begin with this post. This past weekend was Ree Dik A Luss!!

Last week, for my birthday, my daughter, Allison gave me a Home Depot gift card. Of course, I’m staying at home, other than randomly walking and going to the grocery store when needed. However, this week was forecast to be terrible storms in our area. With that thought in mind, Sunday I decided to make a run to Home Depot and pick up some things I could use this week. The weather was just a little drizzly off and on, but nothing to worry about at all. So, I jumped in my car and headed out.

I spent a total of maybe 30 minutes in Home Depot. Right at the time I was getting back into my car, the rain drops began to fall. I was on the interstate heading home when I got a phone call, but had only spoken for a less than a minute before I had to end the call. The rain had gotten so heavy, I couldn’t see past my windshield. You know, eyes and ears go hand in hand like that. Immediately after hanging up, that obnoxious noise of a tornado warning blared from my phone. We get these pretty often during storms, so I just set my mind to getting home as quickly as I could. I just really couldn’t see anything, so I drove to the next overpass and hid underneath it. Now, I’m not sure if that was the smartest thing to do, but a truck behind me did the same thing, so there’s that. The rain was still pounding hard on my car, regardless of my shelter and all I could do was look around for that tornado. I felt I was directly in harm’s way of it. At this point, I was about 7 miles from Home Depot.

All of a sudden, the rain stopped beating on my car and I pulled out from under the overpass and drove home. It had already stopped raining completely by the time I made it. Moments after returning home, I watched the weather and found out a tornado had ripped through a neighborhood and our regional airport, tearing homes and aircraft to shreds. The neighborhood it ripped up is right across the street behind Home Depot and the airport is 2 miles from Home Depot. Whaaat??

Now, here’s the deal. I’ve been even closer to a tornado than that before. A few years ago, I was in my living room when my front door blew open because of “high winds”. Yeah, that high wind was a tornado that literally weaved around my house and took out others right behind me. Less than a year ago, I drove right beside one, and a year before that, one was right behind the property of the hotel I was running while I was watching a guest record it on his phone from the parking lot. But this one Easter Sunday was a little different. It grabbed my heart and will not turn loose because of what’s going on in the world today due to Covid-19. The residents who were involved are supposed to be staying home, yet they have no home to stay in right now. I’ve been asking where do these people go? What do they do? I’m not getting any answers. This was their Easter Sunday this year. Could it get any worse? Actually, yes it could, but to them, probably not. Allow me to give you some visuals.

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These were just images readily available from yesterday on social media. These are not my own.

I just can’t imagine how horrified these people are. Businesses, even, that have encountered monetary loss due to the virus and now these businesses physically destroyed. Some may not ever come back.

It’s truly a somber day.